PickVidsBest Everyday physics & science demos Videos
The 166 Everyday physics & science demos videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 6 introductory, 20 intermediate, 139 for a general viewer, and 1 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include Veritasium, SmarterEveryDay, Technology Connections.
Does Hot Water Freeze Faster Than Cold Water?
Sciencium examines the Mpemba effect, the claim that hot water freezes faster than cold water.
Airflow across a wing
A one-minute clip from Cambridge's Prof.
Quantum Levitation
A short demo from Tel-Aviv University of a superconductor locked in a magnetic field, hovering and staying fixed in place.
Tacoma Bridge Collapse: The Wobbliest Bridge in the World? (1940) | British Pathé
Short British Pathe newsreel footage of the 1940 collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge as it twisted and swayed in the wind.
Scientists Make Easter Island Statue Walk | National Geographic
A one-minute National Geographic clip of researchers Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo testing a theory that Easter Islanders used ropes to rock the moai statues upright to walk them to their platforms.
Railroad tank car vacuum implosion
A brief demonstration of a railroad tank car imploding after a vacuum is pulled with its safety valves disabled.
Listening radio with grass
Two experimenters hold blades of grass near a radio transmitter antenna and hear the AM station through the arc between antenna and grass.
Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting in a Room
A performance recording of Alvin Lucier's 1969 experimental piece in which a spoken text is repeatedly played back and re-recorded in a room until the room's resonances overwhelm the words.
Fluorescent Lights under High Voltage Power Lines!
Footage of Richard Box's art installation in which fluorescent tubes light up in the ground under high voltage power lines, showing the electric fields they produce.
World's Strongest Magnet!
Veritasium visits the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory to see the world's strongest magnets and demonstrate effects like eddy currents.
The Greenhouse Gas Demo
A four-minute demo of the greenhouse effect showing how increased carbon dioxide raises temperature.
The Counterintuitive Physics of Turning a Bike
A two-minute minutephysics video explaining why turning a bicycle requires first steering briefly the other way.
A laser pointer at 2 billion fps makes the speed of light look... kinda weird
AlphaPhoenix shows off a new camera that films at two billion frames per second and uses it to film a laser pointer pulse.
Crazy pool vortex
Physics Girl shows a vortex phenomenon (a falaco soliton) that can be reproduced in a pool on a sunny day.
20Hz to 20kHz (Human Audio Spectrum)
A two-minute sine tone sweeping exponentially from 20 Hz to 20 kHz, covering the human hearing range at constant acoustic pressure.
Spinning Sphere of Molten Sodium
Veritasium shows an experiment from Prof.
am radio tower power
A one-minute clip where an AM radio station can be heard through the arcing of a high-power transmitter tower.
Zero Mass Water -BUSTED!
Thunderf00t argues that Zero Mass Water's solar-powered atmospheric water generator is essentially a dehumidifier with solar panels.
Microwaving Grapes Makes Plasma
Veritasium explains why a halved grape in a microwave makes plasma: the grape traps microwaves, and the fields of two halves interact to concentrate energy where they touch.
100 car batteries wired in parallel!
Styropyro wires 100 car batteries in parallel to produce more current than a lightning bolt and tests what happens when it is shorted.
EEVblog #646 - Gravity Detection Using A Frequency Counter!
Dave Jones of EEVblog demonstrates that a frequency counter can detect gravity through the 2g tipover effect on quartz crystal oscillators.
How noisy is a wind farm?
A two-minute Telegraph report that takes a decibel meter to a wind farm and nearby residential areas to measure how loud turbines are compared with everyday noise.